CES book characters at the parade included grand marshals front: Bailey Goss, “The Grinch,” Jack Echols, “Mooseltoe,” and back, left to right, Bethany Ates as “Pippy Longstocking,” Jared Meaux as “Captain Underpants,” Madison Joyner and Tessa Ledford as characters from “The Cat in the Hat” and Logan Stevenson as a character from “Goosebumps.”

Second-grade news

Those of us in second grade at CES are waiting anxiously for Christmas to get here. We have been making Christmas ornaments and Christmas presents for our parents. We have also written letters to Santa. Our music teacher Mrs. Roberts has taught us some new Christmas songs that we performed for our parents this past Tuesday.

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When Rick Gallot was named the 10th president of Grambling State University in July, James Bradford, mayor of Jonesboro and GSU alum, was there in the University of Louisiana System Board of Supervisors room as scores erupted in glee. Bradford was elated but he decided he had to do something — something big.